# That's NOT why I named her Lola, you twit! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 25, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565 "2000-05-25T23:39:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/21 "2000-05-27T13:56:59Z")
**annalamerino:** You named your daughter after “Lil’ Abner” ? ---
**Author:** ![Alpha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Alpha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/22 "2000-05-27T15:46:24Z")
Li’l Abner didn’t have any kids, did it? (Except the lady who carried her pig under one arm and her bare baby facing backward under the other.) Did Mammy have more kids? Cousins? Maybe you mean Sadie Hawkins, but she was never called Lola or Anna. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/23 "2000-05-27T17:57:21Z")
“Layla”=Clapton. “Lola”=The Kinks. By the way, if Ray Davies ever tours again with his solo show, I highly recommend it. It’s more of a 3-hour performance piece than a concert. I also think that which song pops into one’s head upon hearing the name “Lola” says a lot about someone–the Kinks, Barry Manilow, or “Damn Yankees”. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sweet\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/24 "2000-05-28T01:08:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I can understand the distress you feel. Your friends think you are a closet Madonna fan. So are they still your friends? \*\* I am a Madonna fan. I just wasn’t thinking of that at all when I started calling my daughter Lola (actually, it was my fiance who started it). ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/25 "2000-05-28T02:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > \*\* Lola was an Eric Clapton song, of course that was manny ,manny moons ago. \*\* [/QUOTE] Layla? Or was there also a “Lola?” \*\* [/QUOTE] OK, I was wrong, blame it on that Lionsob I’m married to. I should know better than to ask him a question before he is awake. ---
**Author:** ![UpperUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a8b319/32.png) [@UpperUS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UpperUS)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2000, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/26 "2000-05-29T14:21:37Z")
Osip, Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/27 "2000-05-30T15:18:10Z")
If going the Lil Abner route, it would be hard to pass up Hogfat Gooch or Tornado Ike. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/28 "2000-05-30T16:00:03Z")
…or Lonesome Polecat or Hairless Joe or Moonbeam McSwine or Sir Cedric Cesspool (“A Cesspool is nothing to be sniffed at! There have ALWAYS been Cesspools!”)… Yes, there was at least one kid in LIL’ ABNER…somehow, Abner and Daisy Mae managed to procreate by the mid-1950s, despite their total unawareness of the basics of human biology. Their offspring was named Honest Abe Yokum. Abner also had a younger brother named Tiny, who was even larger than Abner himself. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/29 "2000-05-30T20:41:13Z")
> [@](#): > > somehow, Abner and Daisy Mae managed to procreate by the mid-1950s, despite their total unawareness of the basics of human biology. Their offspring was named Honest Abe Yokum. I believe Daisy Mae said I does in 1950. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/30 "2000-05-30T21:04:08Z")
To find out more about “The Kinks” try your local library…or head on over to [http://kinks.it.rit.edu/](http://kinks.it.rit.edu/) ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/31 "2000-05-30T21:42:38Z")
Mojo wrote: Are you sure? I thought it was “She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda…” * * * Ah, another “Weird Al” Yankovic fan on this thread! Yippee! I dig him so much I did a two hour radio special about him back in April (as close to April Fool’s Day as my Wednesday show could get). Speaking of “Weird Al” and Madonna influences, am I alone in thinking his spin on “American Pie” was far superior to hers? Even when I hear the original song in a store, I can’t thinking… “My, my, this here Anikan (sp?) guy. May be Vader some day later now he’s just a small fry…” ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/32 "2000-05-30T21:57:02Z")
That should read, “can’t HELP thinking…” Sorry about that! Back to lurking I go… Patty ---
**Author:** ![InsanityIncarnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7cd45c/32.png) [@InsanityIncarnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InsanityIncarnate)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/33 "2000-05-30T22:06:54Z")
Madonna ruined the song. She destroyed it. Even Wierd Al(who is very cool) Showed the song more respect than she did. ---
**Author:** ![thudain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@thudain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thudain)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/34 "2000-05-30T22:11:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Mojo wrote: > > Are you sure? I thought it was “She lived in a swamp down on Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda, S-o-d-a, Soda…” > > * * * > > “My, my, this here Anikan (sp?) guy. > May be Vader some day later > now he’s just a small fry…” > > \*\* [http://www.myths.com/pub/lyrics/weirdal\_x.html](http://www.myths.com/pub/lyrics/weirdal_x.html) contains WAY’s best lyrics side-by-side with those of the songs being parodied. \*\* I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah I met her in a club down in old Soho where it bubbles all the time Where you drink champagne like a giant carbonated soda and it tastes just like cherry cola S-O-D-A soda C-O-L-A cola \*\* Oh my my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he’s just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin’ “Soon I’m gonna be a Jedi” “Soon I’m gonna be a Jedi” \*\* i bet those lines don’t break right . . . ok dpm ---
**Author:** ![Themistocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Themistocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themistocles)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/35 "2000-05-30T22:22:46Z")
begin lurker = false end I’m sitting here, enjoying this Lola thread, when suddenly guess what I hear on the radio? (Lola - The Kinks) Well, I can tell you this, it’s a good song! -Mist ---
**Author:** ![Saxifrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Saxifrage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saxifrage)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/36 "2000-05-30T23:51:40Z")
Down on a planet in Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbanoted soda, S-O-D-A, soda… I met a little frog sitting there on a log, I asked his name, in a rasty voice he said Yoda, Y-O-D-A, Yoda… I know Darth Vader’s got you really annoyed, but if you kill now you’ll be unemployed and it’ll be over, oh-oh-oh-over… ---
**Author:** ![Saxifrage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Saxifrage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saxifrage)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2000, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/37 "2000-05-30T23:52:06Z")
Down on a planet in Dagobah, where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbanoted soda, S-O-D-A, soda… I met a little frog sitting there on a log, I asked his name, in a rasty voice he said Yoda, Y-O-D-A, Yoda… I know Darth Vader’s got you really annoyed, but if you kill now you’ll be unemployed and it’ll be over, oh-oh-oh-over… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/38 "2000-05-31T04:06:23Z")
My wife and I had twins daughters about ten years back. She had always likes the names Sarah and Diana, but the unpleasant, semi-royal associations prevented her from using either name. Well, Diane for one middle name but we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel. ---
**Author:** ![SoapBoxMessiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@SoapBoxMessiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoapBoxMessiah)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/39 "2000-05-31T10:03:09Z")
> [@](#): > > **we ended up naming one after me and one after a squirrel.** Please tell me it wasn’t Screwy. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565/40 "2000-05-31T16:14:50Z")
I really, _really_, **REALLY** hate to break the magic of this thread, but didn’t Madonna name her daughter Lourdes? Not Lola? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-not-why-i-named-her-lola-you-twit/20565.md?page=3)